Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Xenacoelomorpha > Subphylum Xenacoela

Xenoturbellida Bourlat, Juliusdottir, Lowe, Freeman, Aronowicz et al., 2006

Rank: Infraphylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xenoturbellidae Westblad, 1949

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: paradox worms

Japanese: 珍渦虫動物亜門 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: paradoxmaskar

Literature

original description	Bourlat S.J., Juliusdottir T., Lowe C.J., Freeman R., Aronowicz J., Kirschner M., Lander E.S., Thorndyke M., Nakano H., Kohn A.B., Heyland A., Moroz L.L., Copley R.R. & Telford M.J., 2006. Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida. Nature 444: 85-88
status source	Redmond, A. K. (2024). Acoelomorph flatworm monophyly is a long-branch attraction artefact obscuring a clade of Acoela and Xenoturbellida. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291(2031).